When systematists compare vertebrates to all other animals, the absence of a vertebral column is the ____ character

state and the presence of a vertebral column is the ____.



a. homologous; homoplasy
b. ancestral; homology
c. homologous; derived
d. derived; ancestral
e. ancestral; derived


ANSWER: e

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